disappearing bees
May. 4th, 2008 04:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sabThe bees are, as we all know, disappearing. [link to Reuters]
The wiki entry on CCR, or Colony Collapse Disorder has slightly more speculation/info on the phenomenon.
Electromagnetic radiation
Further information: Electromagnetic radiation and Mobile phone radiation and health
In April 2007, news of a University of Landau study appeared in major media, beginning with an article in The Independent that stated that the subject of the study was mobile phones and had related them to CCD.[76] Cellular phones were implicated by other media reports, but were in fact not covered in the study, and the researchers have since emphatically disavowed any connection between their research, cell phones, and CCD, specifically indicating that the Independent article had misinterpreted their results and created "a horror story".[77][78][79]
The 2006 University of Landau pilot study was looking for non-thermal effects of radio frequency ("RF") on honey bees (Apis mellifera carnica) and suggested that when bee hives have DECT cordless phone base stations embedded in them, the close-range electromagnetic field ("EMF") may reduce the ability of bees to return to their hive; they also noticed a slight reduction in honeycomb weight in treated colonies.[80] In the course of their study, one half of their colonies broke down, including some of their controls which did not have DECT base stations embedded in them.
The team's 2004 exploratory study on non-thermal effects on learning did not find any change in behavior due to RF exposure from the DECT base station operating at 1880-1900 MHz.[81]
Like the links to CCD from variants (herbicides, genetically modified crops, etc), the link of either cordless or cellular phones, cell towers, interference by the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) or Ground Wave Emergency Network (GWEN) to CCD is speculative.
Elsewhere on the internets, Haagen-Dazs has started their own "Save the Ice Cream! Save the Bees!" Heroes-style season pitch: Help the Honeybees is totally ice-cream sponsored, but still pretty interesting.
I'm just saying. There are things we can blame on Harriet Jones, and then there's the bees disappearing. *g*
The wiki entry on CCR, or Colony Collapse Disorder has slightly more speculation/info on the phenomenon.
Electromagnetic radiation
Further information: Electromagnetic radiation and Mobile phone radiation and health
In April 2007, news of a University of Landau study appeared in major media, beginning with an article in The Independent that stated that the subject of the study was mobile phones and had related them to CCD.[76] Cellular phones were implicated by other media reports, but were in fact not covered in the study, and the researchers have since emphatically disavowed any connection between their research, cell phones, and CCD, specifically indicating that the Independent article had misinterpreted their results and created "a horror story".[77][78][79]
The 2006 University of Landau pilot study was looking for non-thermal effects of radio frequency ("RF") on honey bees (Apis mellifera carnica) and suggested that when bee hives have DECT cordless phone base stations embedded in them, the close-range electromagnetic field ("EMF") may reduce the ability of bees to return to their hive; they also noticed a slight reduction in honeycomb weight in treated colonies.[80] In the course of their study, one half of their colonies broke down, including some of their controls which did not have DECT base stations embedded in them.
The team's 2004 exploratory study on non-thermal effects on learning did not find any change in behavior due to RF exposure from the DECT base station operating at 1880-1900 MHz.[81]
Like the links to CCD from variants (herbicides, genetically modified crops, etc), the link of either cordless or cellular phones, cell towers, interference by the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) or Ground Wave Emergency Network (GWEN) to CCD is speculative.
Elsewhere on the internets, Haagen-Dazs has started their own "Save the Ice Cream! Save the Bees!" Heroes-style season pitch: Help the Honeybees is totally ice-cream sponsored, but still pretty interesting.
I'm just saying. There are things we can blame on Harriet Jones, and then there's the bees disappearing. *g*
